The next election — let history decide

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Politics is becoming stranger. For example, it now looks as though one of the
issues at the next general election is going to be the causes of the First
World War.

Last week, to usher in the centenary year of the war to end all wars, the
Education Secretary, Michael Gove, wrote a column attacking “some of the
myths” that had grown up about it. This mythos fed by “left-wing academics”
was that the war was a “misbegotten shambles” when in fact it was “plainly a
just war”.